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Example sentences for "sightings"

Lexicographically close words:
sighte; sighted; sightedness; sightes; sighting; sightless; sightlessly; sightly; sights; sightseeing
  1. When a series of sightings over several days gave Rip enough exact data to work on, he recalculated the orbit, found the amount that the course had to be corrected, and supervised the cutting of new holes in the metal.

  2. Had his figures or his sightings been off?

  3. The second wolf in line generally was noticeably small, possible a female, and the third wolf was twice identified as 1059 on the basis of sightings of her collar.

  4. In a total of 77 observations, lone wolves constituted 32 percent of the sightings (fig.

  5. General Schulgen indicated to that there has been a decrease in the reported sightings of the discs which might be because of the fact that it has lost much of its publicity value.

  6. He stated that if this was so, subsequent sightings might be the result of a mass hysteria.

  7. The Army Air Forces Intelligence has also indicated some concern that the reported sightings might have been made by subversive individuals for the purpose of creating a mass hysteria.

  8. He pointed out that the thought exists that the first reported sightings might have been by individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon.

  9. General Schulgen advised that the possibility exists that the first reported sightings of the so-called flying disks were fallacious and prompted by individuals seeking personal publicity, or were reported for political reasons.

  10. The Bureau should be notified immediately by teletype of all reported sightings and the results of your inquiries.

  11. The ominous news of Japanese sightings to the east and west of the perimeter were balanced out by the joyous word that more Marines had landed.

  12. Coastwatcher and scout plane sightings and radio traffic intercepts had identified two battleships, two carriers, four cruisers, and a host of destroyers all headed toward Guadalcanal.

  13. Vouza, volunteered about this time to search out Japanese to the east of the perimeter, where patrol sightings and contacts had indicated the Japanese might have effected a landing.

  14. Persons wishing to report UFO sightings should be advised to contact local law enforcement agencies.

  15. Of course, if they've been observing us for over a century, as those old sightings seem to indicate, they must be far ahead of us, at least in technical progress.

  16. By now, I was certain that Project "Saucer" was trying hard to explain away the sightings and hide the real answer.

  17. By January 1947, ghost-rocket sightings in Europe had diminished to less than one a month.

  18. I also believe that a certain group of disk sightings in this country is linked with our guided missiles.

  19. At first, the sightings were due to imperfect controls; the disks sometimes failed to keep their altitude, partly because of conflicting radio and radar beams from the countries below.

  20. The question is, could such disks fit specific sightings like the one at Godman Field and the case at Fargo?

  21. After breakfast, I went over the list of sightings since June 1947.

  22. Some of these 1950 sightings have already been mentioned in early chapters.

  23. On page 17 I found this: "Available preliminary reports now indicate that a great number of sightings can be explained away as ordinary occurrences which have been misrepresented as a result of human errors.

  24. There are scores of possible explanations for the scores of different type sightings reported.

  25. But all official answers to the strange green-light sightings had been carefully omitted.

  26. Although I was chiefly trying to find out about Project "Saucer," I ran onto two sightings that were not on my list.

  27. As the scare increased, the daytime sightings decreased for a while, and mystery lights began to be seen more often.

  28. The editors of a national magazine had learned of Commander McLaughlin and the sightings at White Sands.

  29. But now, if these sightings were true, the shoe was on the other foot.

  30. In 1897, sightings in the United States began to be more frequent.

  31. Attempts were made to verify all sightings and track records reported by local citizens, by comparing them with the aerially-determined locations.

  32. And then he abruptly turns upon his readers with the question, "Whence come wars, and whence come sightings among you?

  33. Wars, and factions, and sightings have no other source than the body and its lusts.

  34. All the sightings have been within that circle.

  35. It also explains why the circle of sightings is so small.

  36. And how do you get distance, when the sightings are all within a circle only a few miles in diameter?

  37. The boys had decided to reduce all the rumors about flying saucers to statistics that could be examined to see what elements the various sightings had in common.

  38. You know, there's one chunk of data on just a few sightings that we didn't put down because we didn't have a column for it.

  39. All details of the sightings had been noted in Scotty's book.

  40. If you have sightings by different people on the same dates, and at about the same times, put them on the same card.

  41. Ever report these sightings to the authorities?

  42. When I saw that sightings had been made over Swamp Creek at the time of sodium shots, I got an idea.

  43. We ran the dates and times of sightings through the computer with a lot of other dates and times for various things," Steve explained.

  44. Sometimes two sightings had been made at different times on the same date.

  45. The circle we drew around all the sightings doesn't cover a very large territory.

  46. Now we have a rash of sightings in one small area.

  47. Most of the sightings are in the late morning or late afternoon.

  48. So the reason sightings are confined to this area is because the objects are fairly small.

  49. And, curiously enough, during this period while the radiation level remained normal, the visual sightings in the area dropped off too.

  50. This is the complete story of the Lubbock Lights as it is carried in the Air Force files, one of the most interesting and most controversial collection of UFO sightings ever to be reported to Project Blue Book.

  51. If the letters reporting UFO sightings were counted, the total would rise to twenty or thirty a day.

  52. The second day's radar sightings were caused by another balloon and weather--both enhanced by the firm conviction that there were some mighty queer goings on over Jersey.

  53. How many of these sightings were due to the power of suggestion and how many were authentic I didn't know.

  54. One of the most frequent comments we heard was, "Why do all of these radar- visual sightings occur at night?

  55. First of all, radar-visual sightings were the best type of UFO sightings we received.

  56. James didn't do any better because he'd just arrived in Washington that morning and didn't know very much more about the sightings than he'd read in the papers.

  57. Donald Menzel of Harvard studied the case and ripped the sightings to shreds in Look, Time, and his book, Flying Saucers, with the theory that the professors were merely looking at refracted city lights.

  58. He knew the people who made these sightings and said that they weren't the kind to go off "half cocked.

  59. The first word of the sightings reached ATIC late in September 1951, when the mail girl dropped letters into my "in" basket.

  60. Three more times during the next two months the "mineral club's" equipment recorded abnormal radiation on occasions when the grapevine reported visual sightings of UFO's.

  61. A few other intelligence officers had evidently also misinterpreted the general's remarks because their reports of excellent sightings were sloppy and incomplete.

  62. Our study of the geographical locations of sightings also covered other countries.

  63. For that reason, we appeal to readers to be on the lookout for tagged animals and to report sightings to one of the authors.

  64. From stranded animals and confirmed sightings at sea, the species appears to be found primarily near shore in areas of high productivity in tropical or subtropical waters, though it ventures into warmer temperate waters as well.

  65. His regular star sightings had told him several days before that the sun was dragging them.

  66. When a series of sightings over several days gave Rip enough exact data to work on, he recalculated the orbit, found the amount that the course had to be corrected, and supervised the cutting of new and smaller holes in the metal.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sightings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.